The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra opens the New Year with the dramatic Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

Guest conductor Petr Popelka leads the CSO in an ambitious program featuring Brahms, Strauss, and an Aucoin world premiere ...

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform Brahms Symphony No. 4 with featured trumpet soloist Will Leathers at the Cannon ...

When the San Diego Symphony welcomes über-pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s on Jan. 17 and 18, it’ll be with full knowledge of his ...

Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...

Brahms' often overlooked symphony is also the most lyrical and best crafted. Once Johannes Brahms started writing symphonies in his 40s, there was evidently no stopping him. By 1883, when he reached ...

Two new faces and some remarkable music: The Seattle Symphony offered inspiring performances in the first of two concerts led by conductor David Zinman. It seems odd to consider Zinman (who turns 80 ...

BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...

As you listen to this richly Romantic symphony, you get a real sense that Brahms had very much hit his stride as a composer. It had taken until he was well into his forties before he felt able to ...